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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE Oshawa Bargain Days Thursday, Friday And Saturday 52 J posing on the back stairs or grin. v Women and the Soil By Lillian Collier Gray A farm woman has more than 8 nodding acquaintance with soil, There are times when she wishes vehemently that she didn't know it quite so well. These are the oc- .casions when she sweeps chunks of it off the back steps, finds it decorating the rungs of the kitch- eon chairs, or comes across it re- ning up from the livingroom rug, A farm woman not only works with the soil in her kitchen gar- den or flower borders; daily she fights its obtrusion into the cov- sted spotlessness of her home, But how well do women know their soil? The earth is very often Just earth, or dirt, and not clean dirt either when it's in the wrong place. Do we value the soil at what it is--our family's health or ill-health, our future well-being or misery? For it is literally true that we are pretty much what we eat, and what we eat is as good or as bad as the #01] on which it grows, A rich soil makes nutri. tious products and healthy peo- ple. A poor soil makes impov. erished products and people sub. Ject to every kind of deficiency disease, The last few years have wit- messed a great improvement in hy. 4 glene, in housing, and medical discoveries, But no real recon- struction can take place in the world until] man sees to it that fertility is restored, The health of soil, plant, animal, man is a connected chain. Break a link, and there must be impaired health, The growth of urban pop- ulations with their greater food demands, added to the use of modern machinery and artificial fertilizers, has exhausted the land on a wide-spread scale, It will be of little use for us to set up pub- lie health units all over our coun. try unless we see to it that the soil of our country is made fertile and is maintained in this condi- tion, We wouldn't even need so much public health work, not nearly so much, if we lived in 2 land where te soil is protected, even pampered, instead of being mined and deplete. of its health. giving constituents, The law of nature is to return to the soil as much as has been taken from it, But we witness man trying to out-wit or "beat" nat 3 (something he never can do) by raking all and returning nothing, or very little, for what he has taken. We may rob our fellow man, although the results of that are also as evil and in- evitable as is the result of rob- bing the soil, but when we rob nature it is only to find there is an inexorable law of retribution, Steal from the soil, and we steal our future, She decline and fal] of great empires have been laid to various causes by historians, But in ev- ery case where this has happened you will find that the people had allowed their soil to become ex- hausted, and after a time they, too, became exhausted, and were an easy prey to disease germs or a better-fed enemy. England's po- sition today is not only jeopard. ized by her economic difficulties. It is also endangered by the fact that throughout the war years she cropped her soil without re- storing to it the vast stores of fertility which she used up. The result must be malnutrition, and disease of crops, livestock, and mankind, We are learning a great deal about the price of soll exploita- tion, of erosion, and the need of Juniors Develop Into Leaders It is essential for rural young people to develop not only a few leaders but to raise the rank-and. file membership to a higher level of interest in farm problems, R.-A. Stewart, Almonte, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, sald at the ahnual short course in co-operation and rural leadership held at Queen's University during the last week of December. Mr. Stewart suggested that mem. bers of Junior Farmer groups at. tending the course try to put into practice in their local organizations what they had learned at the short course and that young people who have no Junior Farmer groups in their home communities attempt to form such groups. The Junior Farmer organizations provide training in leadership for young people both within the junior group and in the senior federation, where Junior Farmers have repre- sentatives, he stated. He sald that training in Junior Farmer groups will enable individuals to make their best contribution to the Ontario and Canadian Federations of Agricul ture. Leonard Harman, Toronto, gen- eral secretary of the United Farm- ers 'Co-operative Co. Ltd., gave three lectures on marketing. The wall of the city of Beyrout in Syria is three miles in ciroums- ference, conservation, We have experts at work on these problems, Our good farmers are aware of all this and more. But isn't it time that the women of Canada added their voice and support to a sofl- saving program? Isn't it time they did this because of the fact that farm families, and urban families, are jus: as healthy as the svuil 'which grows their food. Better soil, better people, better world! ~ A Few More and They'll be a Team Motherhood hasn't halted the basketball activities of Irene Brey of Ripley, Mich., for she still stars on the Ripley basketball team, Mrs. Brey prac tices daily with her children, Privy Council To Determine Disputed Area Regina (CP).--The C.C.F. pro- gram of bolstering farm and labor oups has run afoul of the British er America Act and the Sas- katchewan government is n to the Privy Council court deci- sions throwing out key sections of its program, Crucial sections of the Farm Security and Trade Unions Acts, passed at a special legislative ses- sion shortly after Premier T. C. Douglas' C.C.F. government swept into power in 1944, have been ruled ultra vires of the legislature by Canadian courts. The Privy Council hearing will judge the Farm Security Act's controversial crop-failure clause-- providing for automatic reduction of farm debt in crop failure years --and leave to appeal has been granted for the Trade Union Act's equally-contentious reinstatement Slivuse~gm powering the Saskat- chewan Labor Relations Board to order reinstatement and compen- sation of wrongfully-dismissed em~ ployses, ecause the British North America Act gives the federal government exclusive right to egislate on interest and debt, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the crop-failure clause invalid but, in a djsseting judgment, Mr, Justice Robert Taschereau held it a matter of agriculture and civil rights and, therefore, valid pro- vincial legislation. The Saskatchewan Appeal Court ruled the reinstatement clause unconstitutionai because it gave labor board members judicial powers that could only be conferred y the federal government, Referred to the Supreme Court by federal order-in-council after Saskatchewan refused to exempt prope! under the Veterans' Land Act and various national housing acts from its provisions, the Farm Security Act's disputed section six provided that when crop yields were less than $6 a seeded acre the principal owing on all mort- gages would be reduced by the amount of interest due and final principal payment would be post- poned for one year, The Trade Union Act ruling was made when the appeal eo quashed a labor board order dir ecting the John East Iron Work of Saskatoon to reinstate five em ployees -- allegedly dismissed fo! union activity--and pay them bac) wages. Also disputed are of the Trade Union Act declaring that board orders are enforceabl( as court orders and that union) may apply to courts for enforce ment of board orders. Saskatchewan is also seeking from Canadian courts the right t¢ regulate working conditions of em loyees normally coming unde) ederal legislation. A Suprems Court decision expected in Febru ary will decide if provincial mini mum wage legislation applies t) postal workers and Saskatchewat is joining B.C. in a court fight t! apply provincial working hours any wages codes to workers in railway hotels and restaurants. EFFECTIVE SANITATION Sanitation provisions are ly 4 effective as the least clean cf say health authorities advising Oa- nadians to keep themselves their homes clean to prevent spread of disease. IBERRY' | MID-WINTER SALE | SPECIALS! "+ + « for Opportunity Shoppers THIS WEEK-END! Men's Tweed HORWICH GIFT SHOPPE LEHAWA 40 SIMCOE ST. NORTH Foicavicd) 0 SALE OF TABLE LAMPS 3-Pce. BED SETS HERE'S VALUE! Picture Frames REGULAR $1.59 Regular $17.75. 2 Table Lamps and Bed Regular $13.95 & $15.95 Value. Light in Chrome and Brass Finish Hand-Painted Porcelain Bases, Complete With Shade OUT THEY GO! O'COATS All Wool Tweed O'Coats in fitted or loose fitting styles. Reg. to 34.50. Clearing 19.75 Men's Tweed SUITS All wool Herringbone tweed ma. terial in single breasted or doub- le breasted styles and pleated trousers, Reg. $37.50, Clearing 24%. 29-50 Look At These Values! al 00 MEN'S WOOL MUFFLERS .. 2.95 Reg. to 2.95. Clearing 5.00 Very Special! FLOOR LAMPS TO CLEAR vs OFF @ 3 CANDLE STYLE! ® TORCH STYLE! ® TRILITE! Don't Miss This! 'Boudoir Lamps Complete With Attractive Shades! To Clear rin. If 8.95% 12.05 ] 39.99 * PLE | & NOVELTY JEWELL ERY .s. rippin, 3.95 Single breasted models HAND-PAINTED i Reg. 7.95. Clearing . .. 5 ah with Fly Front & Slash MEN'S MACKINAW COATS, Fur Collar 10. 00 Pockets. Reg. to 42.50. METAL , Say WASTE BASKETS Clearing Reg. 15.00. Clearing 1 4 { SPECIAL! RADIO LAMPS Regular 8.95 to 14.95 Men's ROCKSHIRE and MEN'S FUR BACK MITTS Reg. to 3.95. Clearing ... MEN'S CHAMOIS VESTS Reg. to 12.95. Clearing ............. MEN'S FELT HATS, Broken Ranges Reg. 5.50 ... ; MEN'S GABARDINE VESTS, Quilted Lining, Zipper Fasteners. Reg. 7.95. Clearing sess escssane YARIOUS PRICE GROUPS - 50 " 75¢ - $1.00 It's Impossible to List the Hundreds of Articles That Are Drastically Reduced, Including: ® DINN ERWARE = ® CHINA ® SILVERWARE GIFTS -- Shop and Save at the -- | HORWICH GIFT SHOPPE sl 10 SIMCOE ST. N. OSHAWA res oreons 179 | 34.50 15.95 | = 3 ey . MEN'S PARKAS Reg. 24.5¢ and 19.75. Clearing 27 KING ST. EAST Th Opposite Post Office. Go? | = 5 BE RRY"S TELEPHONE 1110